Thoughts On FB

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. Ernest Hemingway